Filmmaker Michael Moore stopped by The Last Word Thursday night to discuss the Supreme Court's landmark decision to uphold most of the Affordable Care Act. I got a chance to talk with Mr. Moore after the show about a blog post on his site. Check out his Very Last Word above.
...We have a great show tonight! You will not want to miss it!
Tonight on THE LAST WORD, two EXCLUSIVE interviews: Rep. Steny Hoyer & Michael Moore. Both will be reacting to the Supreme Court health care decision.
PLUS: Natoma Canfield, the Ohio cancer survivor who wrote President Obama a letter about her struggles.
The President mentioned her in his speech today, "There's a framed letter that hangs in my office right now. It was sent to me during the health care debate by a woman named Natoma Canfield."
Meet Natoma tonight and hear her thoughts on the decision.
All join us tonight: 10 pm ET/PT.
So, Michael Moore and Jack Abramoff walked into a bar a TV studio...They actually ran into each other backstage on Wednesday's edition of The Last Word. The conversation didn't go as one might assume.
I asked the filmmaker and former lobbyist for details on that conversation and for final thoughts on the show — their last word, if you will.
Spoiler alert: a random wire attacks Michael Moore in the middle of the interview! Watch the video for more.
Michael Moore gives a plea to the police, and Lawrence talks about the show, after the show. Check out the new web-exclusive video.
The Occupy Wall Street movement now extends well beyond the confines of Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan. Filmmaker and activist Michael Moore discusses the "assault on the middle class" with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell. To him, the real "clean-up needs to happen on Wall Street."
Today, protesters entered day 13 of camping out on Wall Street in New York City’s financial district. It's been a 24/7 demonstration, with crowds sleeping in parks and marching the rest of the time.
It doesn't show any signs of waning — quite the opposite, in fact. Two major labor unions are now backing the Occupy Wall Street movement. Members of The New York Transit Workers Union voted last night to support protestors and The Industrial Workers of the World are also on board. It also spawned similar protests in Chicago.
Nick Kristof of The New York Times compared these protesters to those in the Tahir Square uprising, calling them alike based on "social media savvy, carnival mood, and deep sense of frustration and disenfranchisement."
Lawrence spoke with director/activist Michael Moore last night from the site of the Wall Street protests. Police brutality has been an on-going discusison on our show this week. And tonight, we will speak exclusively to Jeanne Mansfield, a witness to the controversial mace incident.
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Demonstrators with Occupy Wall Street sleeping in Zuccotti Park on Thursday, September 29.
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Protesters heading towards the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, September 26.
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An Occupy Wall Street demonstrator sleeping on the sidewalk in Zuccotti Park in New York on Wednesday, September 28.
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A man being carried away by New York City police officers on Saturday, September 24.
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Wall Street protestors march past Federal Hall on Monday, September 26.
Director and activist Michael Moore joins The Last Word from the site of the protests to discuss the fight to save the middle class.
We spent half of Tuesday's show talking to filmmaker Michael Moore. Lawrence spoke to him on a range of topics from Medicare to how the government can bring troops home from Afghanistan. In the middle of their lengthy interview, Moore asked Lawrence about NBC's response to his criticism of fellow employee, Donald Trump. Watch the video for Lawrence's reaction.
The second half of our exclusive interview with Michael Moore airs tonight at 10pm ET. After recently hanging out with us on the set, we asked him to tape a special promo for The Last Word. Take note his impeccably-timed eyebrow raise.
Director/activist Michael Moore dissected President Obama's problems in Washington and offered advice on how to win back voters in 2012. He was on the set with Lawrence last night, and he delivered a warning message to the president: get it together or you'll be out of a job.
"Here's what [Obama] doesn't get: when your opponent states clearly that our number one job in the next two years is to make sure you don't have a second term, our number one job is to defeat you and to embarrass you, you don't respond with kumbaya, let's hold hands," said Moore.
"He doesn't understand is that they are going to go after him relentlessly. And they're going to call him a socialist or a Kenyan or a tribesman. If he responds weakly, like a weakling, they won't be calling him Mr. President any more. He's going to be unemployed in 2012."
Moore also advised Democrats to "get some gumption."
The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell airs at 10pm ET, Monday through Thursday on MSNBC. The show channels O'Donnell's extensive background in politics and entertainment.
